A particularly cynical friend of mine said the first ten years of Detroit Techno was all about trying to remake Strings of Life, and the last ten years have been about remaking Knights of the Jaguar.
My personal reaction to this particular release was that "The Bridge" combines the offbeat surging of all that French electropop crap that's been big the past couple years, with fragmented "Strings Of Life" stabs, and held together with a bog standard euro-house beat. Oh and there's all sorts of dramatic wooshing. "Black Sun" -- eh the beats a little tougher, but it also has that sort of effete pandering prog-house fake drama that makes me want to cut a DJ. These are tracks precisely calibrated to appeal to cheesy big room DJs and wannabe cheesy big room DJs. Play either of them back to back with, oh, "Psychotic Photosynthesis" and tell me which is real and which is fake. Sorry Derrick, try again. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:49 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Kenny is spot on to call Derrick out like that. A giant WTF was very much > needed. > > The tracks themselves were kinda boring, I guess. I didn't feel the same > warmth from the strings that I have gotten from some other more well known > Transmat releases. > > I find it hard to believe that these are the tracks that compelled Derrick to > re launch the label. I kinda wish he had called someone like Scott Grooves > for tracks... > > Jeff >
